CONTRIBUTING FACTORS$ asserts that most editors listed in magazine mastheads do not hold an office within the company. Instead, they work from their homes as freelancers. Their reliable outpouring of articles results in regular assignments and bylines. Freed of the necessity of a regular workweek complete with a tiny cubicle in the corporate world, these writers enjoy the flexibility and the comfort of their own homes. Most importantly, Contributing Factor$ provides the keys to becoming one of those successful writers through explanation, example, and experience.

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Discovering Dinosaurs In The Old West: The Field Journals Of Arthur Lakes, deftly edited by Michael F. Kohl (Amateur paleontologist, Head of Special Collections at the Clemson university Library, and the discovered of Lake's missing journals) and John S. McIntosh (Emeritus Professor of Physics, Wesleyan University and a paleontologist specializing in sauropods), is a unique presentation of the original journal entries from 1877 to 1880 by geologist Arthur Lakes and presented with numerous annotations, clarifications, maps, black-and-white photographs and a great deal more. Enhanced with an informative foreword by John Ostrom (Professor Emeritus of Geology and Geophyiscs, Yale University) Discovering Dinosaurs In The Old West is a superbly presented and invaluable addition to personal, professional, and academic paleontology supplemental reading lists and reference collections.

Many of the most memorable pieces in Endless Staircase, Sandy McIntosh's fourth book of poetry are in blocks of prose. Whether to call them prose-poems with a strong plot or short stories is unimportant: McIntosh is a consummate story-teller with a gift for the rhythms of poetry and prose and le mot juste. At times verging on the surreal and at other times fastened to clear, direct speech and plain imagery, his work elegantly distills the wonder and absurdity of what one poem's title calls "The Brutality of Memory," including the collisions of conflicting egos and psychic agendas in love and friendship, as well as the comic or horrific detonation of the best-laid life-plans. Not unlike Chekhov, McIntosh scrupulously crafts recollected suffering and laughter while refusing to churn platitudes out of it: "But no, nothing is clear, not before, not after." In "Black Stone," "Admonition (I)," and various other humorous pieces on love, men strain to impress women who see through every pretense or who are too busy with their own obsessions to notice. Nevertheless, in "Wedding Song," amatory ideals are taken seriously and are projected with imaginative energy: "Let us become inseparable/ and spin through space/ and be anonymous as a comet/ that appears once a thousand years." Much of the book is written under the sign of elegy. The most remarkable accomplishment of Endless Staircase is the title-sequence, in which McIntosh, with unsparing precision, charts the divergent paths that he and his brother, who died in his thirties of a drug overdose, took. The pathos of the long prose-section, which is framed by the extremely difficult trip to the morgue to identify the body, comes from the implication that the narrator was powerless to help his brother get beyond his "public swagger," the stubborn insistence on self-destruction; he could do nothing but watch (and record) his brother's long, tragic decline from a troubling distance. Each carefully chosen detail of their lives resonates with other details, and the prose-section concludes with the narrator's need to shield his mother from the horror of the brother's appearance in death.

I found this book to be excellent. The information is laid out in a clear conscice manner. Making some of the more complex information easy to understand. Professor Mcintosh and collegues did a great job.

This is a roadmap to finding and landing a job in today's turbulent market. McIntosh details a technique that puts the empahsis on proactively creating job opportunities and tapping into the 75% of jobs that are never advertised. I bought the book while contemplating a job change, and using McIntosh's methods, have increased my salary from $20k to nearly $100k in two years. Be a hawk. It works!

If you are into the out of doors and enjoy hunting and fishing then this is a book for you. The art of Herb Booth featured in the edition is outstanding. Not only do you get a fine insight into this artist but are shown the excellent examples of his work as well. The book is filled with oversized high quality color plates showing almost fifty of his pieces. Although wonderful in itself you also get almost 100 black and white line drawings that support the main featured art. These range from fish to birds to hunting dogs. You will also find many of the etchings that Mr. Booth is so famous for. This publication has quickly become a valued addition to my library. I could not be more please with it's quality and content.

This was just the book I needed to take on the task of managing my sons Tee Ball team. Simple, easily read and understood, and most important age appropriate for the little guys and gals.

The book has a spiral binding so it'll lay flat and slick pages so that it's easier to wipe off splatters. The instructions are easy to follow and there are plenty of pictures to show processes or the final result. There's also pertinent dietary information with each recipe.

After looking at several cookbooks on low-fat cooking, I bought this one and a few others from other authors. I've always loved soups and stews, but have never been much of a cook. This author's book was the best I tried.

I've made many of the recipes in this book and have liked all of them. The meals have all been low-fat and low-sodium, but because of the well-chosen seasonings and flavors, are very tasty and satisfying. The key to the recipes is the choice of seasonings. The recipes have blended low-fat and low-sodium ingredients into wonderful combinations.

All of the recipes are very different from each other, giving me a wide variety of meals. I also appreciate that the book shows color photos of many of the meals, and all the recipes have the calorie count, fat amount, sodium amount, etc. shown.

Because I've liked all of the recipes I've tried so far from this book, I've also bought most of the other books in this same series and have been pleased with all of them.

Othniel Charles Marsh died in the last year of the nineteenth century. The names coined by Marsh for his dinosaur discoveries are better known than his own: Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, and Triceratops, to name just a few. Before death intervened, Marsh had planned a series of richly illustrated monographs. The illustrations were prepared, but the monographs on the Sauropoda and Stegosauria were never written.

In 1966, the beautiful but all-but-forgotten illustrations were unveiled by John Ostrom and John McIntosh in the book Marsh's Dinosaurs. Now this wonderful book is again available, with a new introduction by Peter Dodson, and an updated history including the exploration and research that have taken place during the thirty-plus years since the book was originally published.

Marsh's Dinosaurs is not your garden variety dinosaur book. There are no color plates or discussions of the latest controversies. This book focuses on the fossilized bones of dinosaurs that lived near the end of the Jurassic period in North America, and which were discovered in spectacular abundance at a place called Como Bluff, which paleontologist Robert Bakker calls "the Real Jurassic Park."

If you want to see what Stegosaurus plates look like, or the vertebrae of Apatosaurus, the bones are here, with detail that few photographs can capture. Here, too, is the large camarasaurid cranium that Marsh selected as the skull for Brontosaurus. Except for trace fossils such as trackways and a few skin impressions, our notions of what the dinosaurs looked like and how they lived are built on bones, and the bones are here to behold. For anyone whose interest in dinosaurs has gone beyond the popular summary, and who wants to go further than plaster and resin restorations in museum displays, this book is for you.

The illustrations are preceded by a history of the discovery and working of this paleontological gold mine. This section of the book includes watercolors by Arthur Lakes, whose sketches, diaries, and correspondence with Professor Marsh provide an eyewitness account of the thrill of discovery at Como Bluff, as well as the hardships involved, and the inevitable conflicts of the colorful personalities.

For those with an interest in art, the charming watercolors of Lakes provide an interesting counterpoint to the magnificent lithographs. Here we have the human history of discovering dinosaurs, over one hundred years ago, and the history of the dinosaurs themselves, over one hundred million years ago.

I heartily recommend this book to the dinosaur enthusiast. But for those of us with a passion for the denizens of the Jurassic Morrison Formation, this book is a necessity!